Pascal Guerineau

We are first seduced by his
“laughing eyes”. Then we are
impressed by the tremendous
energy he gives off.

On October 7, 1962, Guerineau
opens his eyes to see world
where he does not belong,
condemned by medical
inevitabilities to close them
forever. Some weeks later,
people are stunned by
miraculous events that deny
him such a sad fate. Therefore
burdened by the suffering
inflicted on his parents
Guerineau strides strongly on
showing spontaneity in
everything he undertakes. It
is Art that Guerineau is
passionate about at the
expense of his studies. He will
spend 10 years with a painter,
Roger Oliver, who teaches him
everything without any
difficulty whatsoever, given his
artistic potential.

From canvas to
canvas he lays his emotions
with an endless search of
external power. Edging deeper
into his work , he faces a
sense of duality: he must now
capture the spirituality of the
inside world. This work gives
birth to the series of his
paintings in which appears the
vanities.

Guerineau’s
characters offer a macabre
dance and highlight the
grotesque nature of existence
which is often synonymous to
the suffering in a vein which is
voluntary morbid with
emaciated silhouettes to return
us to our own questions about
the meaning of things.

Guerineau’s work is
at the meeting of the continual
worlds, those of the ancient
times which breath great
inspiration. The artist creates
on the suffering and the
misunderstanding of a life
which haunts his mind every
day of his life.

This expressionism
translates obviously as a
rebirth, a renaissance, a mirror
reflecting our own unanswered
questions.